BuzzFeed: The Internet's Populist
PARDON MY SWOON, BUT I'VE FALLEN
HEAD-OVER-HEELS IN LIKE. The object of my affection? BuzzFeed, a website that keeps constant score in the "24/7"
contest known as the Internet.
Even before discovering BuzzFeed, I knew I wasn't fishing in the
web's deep waters. But you can't say that about the editors at BuzzFeed. A quick sampling of
today's offering includes links on "Smurf Sex," "Silence of the Lambs" toys, spermatazoa
typeface, butt glue, marijuana vending machines (legal ones for "sick people"), Japan's "rice
babies," Oprahama and bacon cocktails. (I am jealous of the mind that came up with "gateway
meat" to describe this pork cut's addictive quality.)
Obviously the editors over at BuzzFeed.com
find that the editorial life is more rewarding beyond the news pages of Google, MSN or TMZ. And
their reading list definitely extends deeper than the New York Times, Time magazine and
Perez Hilton. Thank you, BuzzFeed, for bringing true populism to the web. Need I say more to
promote a visit?
To my mind, it's a slow news day. Britney is left on a
curb following an emotional meltdown? Ho hum. Heath's getting buried in a $25,000 mahogany casket? I think this story is, um, over. At
least until the toxicology report is back. And who really cares what an unpopular, lame-duck
president says in his last State of the Union
address? Frankly I find just looking at him painful these days.
On a lazy day, the only news blurb that's caught my attention is the case of Ohio
twentysomethings who stole more $8 million from an armored car last November. "I knew taking the
money from AT Systems was wrong, but I wanted a better life," said Nicole Boyd, 25, of
Youngstown, in the statement to the FBI. Poor thing: she obviously hasn't learned that the only
crime that pays is white-collared.
Posted January 29, 2008
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